To me it's irrelevant
That's good because it's not done for your benefit

unnecessary government involvement.
It really isn't, EU contributions and balancing payments are calculated using info like this.
To me it's irrelevant
unnecessary government involvement.
it's not done for your benefit
EU contributions and balancing payments are calculated using info like this.
I thought being part of the EU was supposed to make moving goods easy.
To me it's irrelevant, unnecessary government involvement.How do you think nations would keep track of import/export statistics and trading values if no paperwork is done?
Haha yes they got sent ages ago, my boss did it when he was back... thing is my boss was then arrested (Guessing the time off was court in secret)
So I never knew what the codes were, until he was let out not to long ago and he told me, so I thought I would share![]()
It's not, you're arguing a falsehood, it's not going to the EU, if it was he wouldn't need a customs declaration.
What you talk about is handled by national reporting of intrastat monthly, which is really not that difficult.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/introduction-to-intrastat
To me it's irrelevant, unnecessary government involvement.
What does the EU have to do with anything? It's the UK government I'm talking about...
You think there should be no customs checks? What is the point of having UK laws if you can just ignore those laws and bring items across borders - an AK47, to give an extreme example.
And it's the government of the destination you are unhappy with, it's their customs officials who'll hold it if it doesn't have the correct paperwork.
You think there should be no customs checks? What is the point of having UK laws if you can just ignore those laws and bring items across borders - an AK47, to give an extreme example.
And it's the government of the destination you are unhappy with, it's their customs officials who'll hold it if it doesn't have the correct paperwork.
Goods can be held on export without proper documentation.
There's a difference between screening for illegal weapons and filling in tariff papers. Which would obviously be faked if someone was importing illegal goods anyway.
Never happened in my experience. I'm sure it can though.
Never happened in my experience. I'm sure it can though.
Ignoring for the moment that faked papers can give customs a clue something is wrong (you'd think smugglers would be smart, but chances are they use a completely unlikely commodity code to describe their goods), you think all trade should be tariff free, because there is absolutely no other way to police it then voluntary declaration using harmonised commodity codes.
Removing all tariffs globally is a bit like removing all nuclear weapons globally except it's not only highly improbable but also highly harmful.
Ignoring for the moment that faked papers can give customs a clue something is wrong (you'd think smugglers would be smart, but chances are they use a completely unlikely commodity code to describe their goods), you think all trade should be tariff free, because there is absolutely no other way to police it then voluntary declaration using harmonised commodity codes.
Removing all tariffs globally is a bit like removing all nuclear weapons globally except it's not only highly improbable but also highly harmful.